Tone Of Xiv By Derek Walcott

Few relationships are as deep as those between child and parent. While circumstance and biology can shape the exact nature of the bond, a child’s caretaker is the first to introduce them to the world. And as they grow and begin to branch out, children look to their parents as a model for how to interact with the various new situations. Through allusion, potent imagery, and nostalgic diction, Natasha Trethewey constructs an idolized image of a father guiding their child through life’s challenges only to convey the speaker’s despair when they are faced with their father’s mortality in “Mythmaker.”

Throughout the story Baldwin illustrates that darkness is approaching when he says, “And when light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness. He knows that every time this happens he's moved just a little closer to that darkness outside”(7). The darkness and light Baldwin describes works as cycle, similar to night and day, after light comes darkness and after darkness comes light. The pattern of darkness and light is painted to symbolize the cycle of suffering and salvation, showing without one the other cannot exist. It is how to achieve this balance of light and dark that the narrator struggles with throughout the story. The narrator witnesses many instances of darkness, when his daughter died he wrote, “I was sitting in the living-room in the dark, by myself, and I suddenly thought of Sonny. My trouble made his real”(14). This instance of darkness the narrator depicts shows that suffering hold a present everywhere, it’s universal, and people can cope with their suffering though relating to one another. Furthermore, the recurring idea of darkness throughout the story shows that suffering will always exist and it is a vital part of the human experience. However, one can find the light, escaping the darkness for a moment, through relating to one another and showing compassion. In essence, the symbols light and darkness are used to develop Baldwins theme that suffering is

The relationship between father and son changes over time, and molds along with the people in encapsulates. As in real life, the father and son who inhabit Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story” experience sudden changes within their relationship as the time passes on. The son’s cries for a story that slowly change into adult conversations throughout the poem indicate that with maturity and age comes both understanding and hostility.

"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream

Whenever the light is mentioned in the story there is always darkness to go hand in hand with it. The light equals to positive relief whereas the darkness exemplifies the dread and misery that always threatens to extinguish those encouraging things. These references to the light and darkness give the reader a sense of the mood and tone of the story. These symbols make the story an important part of

The great comparison, somewhat of a conceit, only serves to show the complete infatuation of young love. The girl warms the boy, brightens his day, and thus she is his sun. But the contrast between the bleary winter day and the light the girl represents serves as commentary of how love lights up our bleak world. Young love is what transforms this poem from a mere retelling of a winter day to a retelling of a fond memory of a girl. Love is what brightens the world, what transforms it from a cold and lonely winter day into a beautiful story, and the innocence of young love opens ones eyes to the innocence of love in the face of the cruelty of the world. Love is an infatuation, a prize, an experience, and it keeps us warm even on the coldest of days. Love warms us in the way a winter jacket could not, and it makes us feel as if we have a fire, not in our hands like the speaker, but in our

In the story a young boy decides to go hunting in the night and goes through a revelation as he witnesses an everyday act of the battle between light and darkness as the sun rises. Although set in a different place and time, both authors express a common universal theme: life is a constant battle between light and darkness in our everyday lives. This theme can be seen through a compare and contrast of powerful symbols, transforming settings and misguided characters.

The characters are described as enduring their day to day life, which suggests an uncomfortable presence within their lives. The tone supports the overarching theme of fear. As the poem begins, the child comforts the dog from the clamorous

A) What makes these stories both potent and timeless, is their ability to illustrate moral truths and life lessons, such as vanity, overcoming obstacles in life, spiritual growth, and values, through the use of metaphors. In doing so, these stories enable people to learn a thing or two about themselves, such as aspirations and trepidation's. These stories have become successful at staying vivacious, despite times progression and the growth of diverse societies, by virtue of those retelling these primordial tales.

The changing light symbolizes the Youngers’ hope of achieving their dreams, which changes as they face various obstacles. The challenges faced by the Youngers illustrate the theme of struggling to achieve one’s dream even against incessant difficulties. In the end, the Younger family learned that one must simply maintain hope and keep working to overcome the inevitable obstacles in life. Everyone at some point has experienced something that has held them back from reaching their goal, but hope must never be lost, because hope is what drives one to keep pursuing a dream against the

William Saroyan uses many literary devices such as symbolism and characterization throughout his short story, “Gaston”. He uses them to convey that parents have an influence on their children, who look up to them. He includes many details in each instance of the literary devices, to expand on the theme he is trying to convey.

The poem evokes calming, night time winding down images to me by the line “The twilight darkens” which I see as night fall.

The speaker refers to the night as his acquaintance. This implies that the speaker has a lot of experience with the night, but has not become friends with it. Thus, because even the night, which has been alongside the speaker in comparison to anything or anyone else, is not a companion to the speaker, the idea of loneliness is enhanced. In addition, “rain” (2) is used to symbolize the speaker’s feelings of gloom and grief, because there is continuous pouring of the rain, which is unlikely to stop. In line 3, “city light” is used to convey the emotional distance between the speaker and society. Although the speaker has walked extensively, he has not yet interacted with anyone – thus distancing himself even further from society. Moreover, the moon, in lines 11 to 12, is used as a metaphor of the speaker’s feelings. The speaker feels extremely distant from society that he feels “unearthly.” The idea of isolation and loneliness in this poem is used as the theme of the poem; and the use of the setting and metaphors underscores the idea that the speaker feels abandoned from society.

Light only appears when his friend’s sister, who he is infatuated with, enters the story. Around her there is an air of hope. When the boy is around her the atmosphere is joyful and bright. Every morning he waits to walk to school until she leaves her house. He does not walk with her.

In this poem, the author illustrates how the light on a subject can change its mood and meaning to us. But also how the situation creates the mood of the light. She does this by experimenting with the words she uses to describe each scene. With the words she chooses there is also an accompanying pre-determined meaning we give to the words.